=> On Tue, 28 May 2002 14:01:25 -0700, Gerald Wichmann <gwichman AT ZANTAZ DOT 
COM> said:

> Bottom line is I was just speculating out loud perhaps on whether there were
> any pro's or con's to how many volumes and what size one would make the
> volumes on a RAID5 array. Say you had a 100GB RAID5 array. Would you create
> 10 10GB volumes or 2 50GB volumes? Does it matter since it's all just going
> into a big array?


I decide this based on what's convenient to manage.  I've got a raid of 18GB
SSA disks with 40-some 5GB volumes written on it, because that was where it
seemed the break-even was, between flexible sizing (preferring small volumes)
and simple management, preferring large ones.

With a decent disk controller, I think the performance isn't affected too
much.

Allen S. Rout